Over two days on March 30 and 31st, state police, intelligence officers and the health departments of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu raced to trace and quarantine thousands of people who attended a religious meeting in Delhi’s Nizamuddin neighbourhood, after a number of cases of COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus, […]
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Why Hyderabadis’ Are Struggling To Perform ‘Last Rites’ To ‘Corona Dead’?
In a sad and shocking case, health workers in Hyderabad performed the funeral of a 74-year-old Khaja Hameeduddin, who became the first person in Telangana to die of the deadly coronavirus. Soon after his death, blood samples were collected. He was tested positive with COVID-19 and his grieving family has been under quarantine at their […]
Why Slums In Hyderabad Are Struggling With Hunger, Unable To Get Govt Relief Aid?
During the COVID-19 lockdown period many slums in Hyderabad are struggling with hunger and government welfare aid due to not having white ration cards to some residents and heavy corruption process in the public distribution system. Chotta Ram says he does not have a ration card and so when the Telangana government promised 12 kg […]
Humanitarian Disaster Takes Over Pandemic In India
At the end of the day it is about humanity. Virus, or earthquakes, or drought, or floods, or wars, or hate crime, lynchings, targeted attacks on people. And whether it starts from the rich as this Pandemic has, or from the poor at the bottom end of all health and social sector care, it always […]
Techolution ‘Fired’ 20 Employees In Hyderabad Amidst ‘Covid-19 Slowdown’ Layoffs
The laid-off techies, one of whom is 5 months pregnant, are feared to be among the victims of an anticipated national slowdown and global recession in Hyderabad. Despite government assurances, several IT firms are targetting poor performed employees layoff. On March 20, Sripriyaripriya lost her job at the Hyderabad office of Techolution, a New York-based […]
Why Govt ‘Pandemic Strategy’ Is Disaster Not Health Oriented?
Why is the Government of India so keenly escalating lockdown while not front-ending testing, mask availability, chemical and sanitizer availability, provisioning of beds and the availability of high-end equipment, ICU beds, and other such issues? What makes GOI strategy so different from that say of the US or many other countries? The key to understanding […]
Is ‘Janata Curfew’, A Symbol Of ‘Political Resistance’ And Weapon Against ‘Coronavirus’?
It must be said in these depressing times that Corona or COVID-19 is turning out be a great leveller. No less a person than the prime minister himself, Narendra Modi, gave the call for a ‘Janata Curfew’ in his televised address to the nation on Thursday evening, asking people to lock themselves up from 7 […]
‘Smart-Locking’ In Telangana Has Political Will, Resources For Shut Down To Combat ‘Coronavirus’ Spread
Currently, the cases and clusters in Telangana are simple spreaders which means an infected person with normal infectivity. But COVID 19 can also have a “super spreader”, which means an infected person with high infectivity who can infect hundreds in no time. Currently, Telangana has entered Stage 2 of the COVID 19 epidemic, but can […]
How Telangana Govt ‘Tracking’ Migrant Labourers From Killer ‘Coronavirus’?
Several migrant labourers working in the Middle East countries hail from the erstwhile districts of Karimnagar and Nizamabad, and travel frequently each month. Recently, a Rapid Response Team, comprising doctors and mandal-level health workers, visited Suresh, a 25-year-old man in a village in Banswada mandal in Telangana. The District Surveillance officials had alerted the Rapid […]
Why Lakshmi Parvathi ‘Taken For A Ride’ In Jagan Govt In AP?
The former AP CM and TDP supremo Chandrababu’s arch rival Lakshmi Parvathi was elated when YS Jagan recognized her efforts for the party and gave her a nominated post of State’s Telugu Academy Chairman. For that post, Lakshmi Parvathi should be getting a salary of four lakh rupees a month which includes all allowances and […]